Silver Is Signaling Potential For Large Upside Move This Year – Here’s Why

While not widely reported or analyzed, over the past several months there has been an enormous amount of buying in the various markets for physical silver – both one-ounce sovereign-minted coins and refined bars. Along with some standard trading signals I’ll discuss below, I believe the activity in the market for physical silver is signaling the potential for a large upside move sometime this year. Let me explain.

So says Dave Kranzler (investmentresearchdynamics.com) in edited excerpts from his original article* entitled Is Something Big Brewing In Silver?.

The following article is presented by Lorimer Wilson, editor ofwww.munKNEE.com (Your Key to Making Money!), www.FinancialArticleSummariesToday.com (A site for sore eyes and inquisitive minds) and the FREEMarket Intelligence Report newsletter (register here; sample here) and has been edited, abridged and/or reformatted (some sub-titles and bold/italics emphases) for the sake of clarity and brevity to ensure a fast and easy read. This paragraph must be included in any article re-posting to avoid copyright infringement.

Kranzler goes on to say in further edited excerpts:

Silver is Oversold

“As you can see from this chart below (source: King World News, edit in white is mine), silver is in its most oversold condition since 1976:

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While the 1980 percentage sell-off in silver was greater than the percentage sell-off in silver that started in April 2011, you can see from the MACD momentum indicator on the bottom half of the graph that, technically, silver is more oversold than at any time in the last 28 years. This is significant because it suggests that not only was the 18.56 close on June 27, 2013 most likely the bottom of the big price correction in silver but traders who are short or flat will be looking to cover shorts, start new long positions or add to current long positions on price strength. Thus, from a probability stand-point, silver is more likely to move higher from here than lower.

Record Demand for Silver Coins

In 2013, the sales of both silver eagles and silver maple leafs hit new record levels. From 2012 to 2013, silver eagle sales increased 26.4% and silver maple leaf sales increased 55.8%…

The trend has continued into 2014. Despite a 1-month record sales number in January 2013 of 7.5 million silver eagles (a production shortage in December 2012 pushed December sales into January 2013), sales YTD through April 2014 are higher than for January-April 2013 (18.5mm vs. 18mm). Already in the first 4 business days of May, silver eagle sales are nearly half of the sales for the entire month of May 2013.

It seems that as the price of silver continues to drift under $20, silver coin sales continue to increase. At some point the investment demand for physical silver will put a strain on mined supply.

Record Demand for Silver Bars

India

In 2013, India imported a record 6,125 tonnes of silver…up 189% over what India imported in 2012…in response to the gold import controls put in place by the Indian Government in July 2013, and now represents 21% of the total amount of silver supplied globally from mines, scrap recycling and Government sales…

In the first two months of 2014, India imported 920 tonnes of silver, or 5,520 tonnes annualized.

In my opinion, the unanticipated demand from India will eventually be reflected in higher silver prices, as the high volume of demand will likely affect relative supply.

Record Withdrawals from Vaults

…Recently an extraordinary amount of silver has been withdrawn from both the Comex and the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SFE) (source: SRSrocco.com):

China

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In the week after the above graph was produced, another 73 tonnes were removed from the SFE. Since the end of February, a total of 317 tonnes of silver have been taken out…[and] it is highly probable that this silver was either put away in private investment vaults or used in commercial applications inside of China.

COMEX

Similarly, since the end of February, 368 tonnes of silver have been removed from the…Comex vault accounts… As with China, this silver is either being transferred to private vaults or is being used in industrial applications.

The removal of nearly 700 tonnes of silver from the SFE and the Comex in less than two months, in my opinion, is an indication of an acceleration in demand for silver and an indication that the silver bar market is starting to get tight…[and because of this] the price of silver is going to have to move a lot higher as a mechanism of creating some kind of equilibrium between supply and demand. While above-ground visible stocks of silver, like the Comex, the SFE and the various physical silver bullion trusts are potential sources of supply in excess of mining output and scrap recycling, as those sources of silver become depleted a shortage will develop unless the price of silver moves higher.

Gold/Silver Ratio Signaling Move Up for Silver

Finally, the current gold/silver ratio is signaling the potential for at least a big short-term move higher for silver:

As you can see, the gold/silver ratio is back up to the level it hit at the end of July 2013, right before silver spiked up from $19 to $25:

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Source: StockCharts.com

Although it may not seem like it, gold has been one of the best performing investments YTD in 2014. In comparison, silver is slightly down for the year. If the gold/silver ratio repeats its “behavior” from last summer, it is highly probable that silver will spike higher from here, at least in the short term.

we are still in the secular bull market for gold and silver that began in 2001. The first two legs of this bull market topped out in 2006 and 2011,

that we are about to enter the third leg and that this third leg will experience even bigger percentage gains than what occurred in the first two legs…

the fundamental shortages of physical gold/silver that can be delivered to the possession of large buyers will drive the price movement.

The above being the case, I believe that the trading and fundamental factors as I analyzed them are the start of this process and, in the context of my analysis, I believe silver will ultimately experience significantly higher rates of return than gold over the next few years…”

Editor’s Note: The author’s views and conclusions in the above article are unaltered and no personal comments have been included to maintain the integrity of the original post. Furthermore, the views, conclusions and any recommendations offered in this article are not to be construed as an endorsement of such by the editor.

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One comment

Since Silver is less expensive to acquire, I think of it as the “Common Mans” Gold and as such, it allows far more investors to use Silver as an excellent method of protecting some of their wealth from potential fluctuations in the value of their currency.

Another key issue is that many fear that their Government will confiscate all private Gold holding and that leaves holding Silver as yet another legal manner to sidestep both Government currency fluctuations and Gold regulations, which will give those holding Silver more time to re-position themselves should their currencies values start changing.

I’d be interested in what other readers think of holding Silver vs Gold and Silver’s role in protecting ones holding in an uncertain future.

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